Orange County scores and player stats for Tuesday, Oct. 6

• October 7, 2026

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GIRLS TENNIS

ORANGE LEAGUE

Orange 18, Loara 0

BOYS WATER POLO

COAST LEAGUE

Western 13, Savanna 6

GOLDEN WEST LEAGUE

Westminster 13, Tustin 8

GROVE LEAGUE

Saddleback 5, Bolsa Grande 4

NORTH HILLS LEAGUE

Villa Park 11, Sunny Hills 8

PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE

Sage Hill 13, Northwood 6

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Orange County girls volleyball Top 10, Oct. 6

• October 6, 2026

This week’s Orange County girls volleyball rankings:

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL TOP 10 

(Records through Monday, Oct. 5)

1. Santa Margarita 16-9: The Eagles beat Mater Dei in four sets last week in a Trinity League match. Mater Dei was No. 1 in the MaxPreps national rankings at the time. Ireland Real, who is committed to Texas, had 32 kills for the Eagles who took a 3-0 league record into this week.

Previous ranking: 2

2.  Mater Dei 32-1: The Monarchs lost to Santa Margarita in a Trinity League match, then went to Arizona and won the Nike Tournament of Champions Southwest tournament. In the final, they defeated national No. 3 Cornerstone Christian of Texas.

Previous ranking: 1

3. Los Alamitos 27-6: The Griffins clinched a share of the Sunset League championship with wins over Edison and Newport Harbor. Senior libero Kaitlyn Herweg, who is committed to Indiana, had 21 digs and two aces against Newport Harbor and 19 digs and three aces against Edison in league matches last week.

Previous ranking: 3

4. Newport Harbor 25-6: The Sailors are in second place in the Sunset League with a 7-2 league record. They beat Marina and lost to Los Alamitos (in five sets) last week.

Previous ranking: 4

5. Crean Lutheran 21-4: The Saints are in first place in the Crestview League with a 6-0 league record.

Previous ranking: 5

6. San Juan Hills 16-12: The Stallions are in first place in the South Coast League with a 4-1 league record. They play at home against second-place Beckman on Thursday.

Previous ranking: 7

7. Orange Lutheran 24-5: The Lancers are in third place in the Trinity League with a 1-2 league record going into this week. Korynn Mayo has a team-high 279 kills.

Previous ranking: 8

8 JSerra 9-15: The Lions have struggled against the competition in the Trinity League. They are 0-3 in league after last week’s losses to Mater Dei in four sets and to Orange Lutheran in five.

Previous ranking: 7

9. Beckman 23-8: The Patriots beat Aliso Niguel and San Clemente last week and are in third place in the South Coast League with a 4-2 league record.

Previous ranking: not ranked

10. Huntington Beach 20-11: It has been an inconsistent season for the Oilers, who lost to Edison in a Sunset League match last week. They were in third place in league going into this week.

Previous ranking: not ranked

Also considered: Aliso Niguel, Corona del Mar, Edison, Foothill, Rosary, St. Margaret’s, Sunny Hills.

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Sheryl Crow to headline free Live on Sunset music festival in West Hollywood

• October 6, 2026

Sheryl Crow is coming to the Sunset Strip this fall to headline a new, free outdoor music festival celebrating one of Los Angeles’ most recognizable live music destinations.

The inaugural Live on Sunset will take over a stretch of Sunset Boulevard between Doheny Drive and San Vicente Boulevard in West Hollywood on Saturday, Nov. 14, from 4-11 p.m. The single-day event will also feature performances by Local Natives, Empress Of, Grace Bowers, Doug Locke and Mia Moretti.

Presented by the city of West Hollywood, the festival will feature an outdoor stage with artists representing different generations and musical genres, plus food, beverages, and activities throughout the Sunset Strip. For Crow, the performance marks a return to a neighborhood that played an important role in her early career. The Grammy-winning singer moved to Los Angeles in the late 1980s and performed in West Hollywood as she developed her sound.

The concert also follows the release of Crow’s 12th studio album, “Pick You Up,” scheduled for Oct. 9. Live on Sunset arrives more than a decade after the Sunset Strip Music Festival ended its seven-year run in 2014. Unlike that ticketed event, which featured performances at venues including the Whisky a Go Go, the Roxy and the Viper Room, the new festival will focus on an outdoor concert experience along Sunset Boulevard.

JJLA, the entertainment agency behind the OUTLOUD Music Festival at WeHo Pride, is producing the event to celebrate the Sunset Strip’s musical history while introducing a new generation of performers to the area. Admission is free, but advance registration is required, and capacity is limited. Registration opens Wednesday, Oct. 14, at liveonsunsetweho.com.

Fans can also sign up for event announcements at liveonsunsetweho.com and receive text message updates by texting “sunset” to (323) 848-5000.

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Californians are in a sour mood but don’t want to change the political status quo

• October 6, 2026

Californians are in a sour mood these days, and for good reason.

The state’s economy is stuck in neutral with scant job creation since the end of the COVID pandemic. Major sectors, such as high technology, are experiencing layoffs and job shrinkage and California is tied with two other states for the nation’s highest unemployment rate.

Meanwhile, Californians’ cost of living — especially housing, utilities and fuel — has climbed sharply, more than 100% since 2000, while personal income, adjusted for inflation, has actually declined fractionally since 2020.

A recent poll by the Public Policy Institute of California reflects the angst.

“Majorities of California adults (54%) and likely voters (52%) say the state is headed in the wrong direction,” PPIC found. “This belief is held by nearly all Republicans (94%) and a majority of independents (55%), compared to one in three Democrats (32%).”

PPIC continues, “Californians are much more pessimistic about economic conditions over the next year, with seven in ten adults (71%) and likely voters (73%) as well six in ten or more across parties (61% Democrats, 90% Republicans, 72% independents) expecting bad economic times for the state.”

If Californians are dissatisfied with the present and sour on the future, one might assume that they would express that negative frame of mind by rejecting the state’s political status quo in favor of candidates who promise change.

However, with voting by mail beginning in a few days, the Democratic Party that has dominated California politics for the last three decades can comfortably expect to maintain — or even increase — its hegemony.

All of the statewide offices, including the governorship, will remain in Democratic hands. Polls by PPIC and UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies have found Democrat Xavier Becerra with a double-digit lead over Republican Steve Hilton for the governorship.

Democrats will retain supermajorities in both houses of the Legislature and probably gain a few congressional seats, thanks to gerrymandered districts that voters adopted last year to help neutralize Republican gerrymanders in other states.

A handful of legislative and congressional districts are in play but the macro results favoring Democrats are certain. Republican candidates, from Hilton down, are handicapped by low voter registration and Californians’ deep disdain for President Donald Trump. Just 27% of California voters approve of Trump’s performance, according to the Berkeley IGS poll.

The most uncertain — and therefore most interesting — aspects of this year’s election are a very close battle for the mayoralty of Los Angeles, pitting veteran incumbent Karen Bass against a left-leaning city council member, Nithya Raman, a few Democrat vs. Democrat duels for congressional seats, and some polarizing ballot measures.

Five of the 14 statewide ballot measures relate to taxes, including two that would increase them and three that would make increases less likely.

The biggest and most controversial is Proposition 40, which would impose a one-time 5% tax on the wealth of about 200 billionaires, with proceeds mostly going to shore up healthcare services.

Prop. 40 is sponsored by a healthcare worker union and generally draws support from some, but not all, Democratic political figures and unions. Meanwhile, billionaires are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to oppose Prop. 40 and pass two other measures, Proposition 41 and Proposition 42, that would undermine Prop. 40’s implementation if it survives the election.

Until recently, Prop. 40 was ahead in the polls, although barely. More recent surveys found that its base was eroding as the massive opposition campaign cranked up, so the result is very much in doubt. And even if Prop. 40 wins, it still could be neutralized by the passage of Props. 41 and 42.

Prop. 40 exemplifies the nation’s social and political polarization and its outcome, whatever that may be, will reverberate for years to come.

Dan Walters is a CalMatters columnist

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Students turn on Cornell’s president over the school’s handling of gang rape allegations

• October 6, 2026

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and LEAH WILLINGHAM

ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) — Some of the students outraged by Cornell University’s handling of an alleged fraternity house gang rape are directing their ire at the school’s president, a longtime molecular physiology professor who has faced several crises since taking the top job.

Michael Kotlikoff was Cornell’s longest-serving provost before assuming the presidency on an interim basis in July 2024 and on a permanent basis last year.

In his second month in charge, dining and custodial workers walked off the job in a labor dispute that ended about two weeks later. Last fall, some faculty and students criticized Kotlikoff for agreeing to pay $60 million to end Trump administration civil rights investigations into the Ivy League school. And earlier this year, he defended himself from accusations that he tried to back his car into a group of demonstrators following a debate over Israel and Palestinian rights, saying he was the victim of harassment.

But it was the school’s handling of the investigation into the alleged gang rape at the Chi Phi fraternity house in October 2024, just a few months into his presidency, that threatens his leadership.

The Cornell faculty senate indicated that it plans to vote on a resolution of no confidence in the school’s administrators. And at a Monday protest, students chanted and waved signs calling on Kotlikoff to resign or be fired and for fraternities to be banned.

“Throughout his administration, he’s refused to take accountability for anything that has happened,” said one of the protesters, sophomore Sophia Kong. “He does not represent us.”

Kotlikoff, 75, has come under scrutiny since the woman, identified in court documents only as Jane Doe, filed a lawsuit last month alleging she was sexually assaulted by multiple Chi Phi members two years ago after being pressured into drinking alcohol and taking drugs.

The woman reported the alleged assault to Cornell police in November 2024, three weeks after she said it occurred. Campus police investigated and sent a summary of their findings to the district attorney’s office, which relied on the information in deciding not to bring criminal charges. Separately, Cornell conducted a Title IX investigation.

Amid mounting outrage over the school’s handling of the case, Kotlikoff called the allegations “deeply disturbing” over the weekend. In an apologetic video, he also reaffirmed his commitment to supporting an independent review called for by New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, who has assailed the campus police department for not fully conveying the woman’s story to prosecutors.

No criminal charges have been filed. The Chi Phi chapter was shut down, and the university has said it expelled some students and suspended others. The accused men have all either denied participating or said that the sex that took place was consensual.

Experts are divided on whether it’s fair to criticize Kotlikoff

As some experts see it, Kotlikoff had limited options. Without criminal charges, only Cornell’s Title IX investigation continued. While the federal law is best known as a gamechanger for female college athletes, it also is supposed to protect sexual assault and harassment accusers. But it is packed with protections for the accused, including giving them the right to cross-examine their accuser. Most victims don’t proceed, and when they do, lawsuits from the accuser and accused over the outcome of the proceedings are common.

There are also limits on the punishments schools can mete out, especially for bystanders, said Peter Lake, who directs a center focused on higher education law and policy at Stetson University College of Law in Florida.

If universities act too quickly, they risk a situation like what happened at Duke University two decades ago, when a woman falsely accused three lacrosse players of rape, he said. The players ultimately reached an undisclosed settlement with Duke, which had suspended them, canceled the team’s season and forced their coach to resign after the accusations were first made.

But some point to the role of university leadership in setting campus culture. Critics note that Cornell’s fraternities have a history of problems, including hazing and sexual misconduct, and argue that more should have been done to set a better tone and educate students about consent.

“If you are the leader of that campus and this is part of your portfolio of what happens on your campus, it’s not like ‘Oh well that only affects the members of that fraternity and the women that they’re attempting to sleep with,’” said Jane Stapleton, co-founder of the Prevention Innovations Research Center at the University of New Hampshire. “That impacts the entire fabric of the culture of, ‘How do men respect women? How safe is it to be a woman?’”

Kotlikoff has discussed steps to address the case

Within a few weeks of the alleged assault, Kotlikoff issued a statement detailing the investigation and decrying the alleged behavior as “abhorrent.”

A task force on sexual assault that was launched afterward included recommendations such as improved education on Title IX and what it described as “sexual citizenship.” The report said that a 2025 survey found that 35% of undergraduate women and 8% of undergraduate men report experiencing sexual assault during their time at Cornell.

The extent of Cornell’s investigation has emerged in court records filed after one of the punished students sued the school. According to Cornell’s account, investigators conducted 50 interviews with 32 witnesses and gathered evidence that included witness accounts, electronic communications and social media messages. The process ultimately led to a disciplinary hearing that stretched over 12 days.

Kotlikoff has called for a “serious look” at Greek life, but the end of fraternities on campus is not being considered. Instead, Kotlikoff said Cornell would engage students, alumni and others in examining how to preserve the benefits of Greek life while strengthening accountability and transparency.

Not every president survives such situations

A little over a decade ago, former Baylor University President Ken Starr, best known for the probe that led to Bill Clinton’s presidential impeachment, lost his job amid allegations that the Texas Baptist school mishandled several cases in which football players were accused of attacking women. In 2021, Oregon State trustees accepted the resignation of university president F. King Alexander, concluding he was unable to rebuild trust at the school because of his role in the mishandling of sexual misconduct cases during his previous tenure at Louisiana State University.

More recently, Columbia University President Minouche Shafik was among several U.S. college leaders to resign under pressure for the handling of protests over the war in Gaza.

Soham Bera, a Cornell sophomore, said students have “incredibly low faith” in the university leadership.

“Now, with all this news, with all the attention, we can finally make change,” he said at Monday’s protest.

Lili Rose Mas, a junior who was also calling for Kotlikoff to step down, said she was encouraged by the number of students who joined the protest.

“It makes me have more faith in humanity,” Mas said. “I truly think that Gen Z might be the generation that changes the world, because, like, these old people in the admin are not doing anything, but all the students here care about this.”

Hollingsworth reported from Mission, Kansas. The Associated Press’ education coverage receives financial support from multiple private foundations. AP is solely responsible for all content. Find AP’s standards for working with philanthropies, a list of supporters and funded coverage areas at AP.org.

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Cheryl Brown: Seniors don’t get a do-over. Vote Yes on Prop. 42.

• October 6, 2026

When I served in the State Assembly and chaired the Committee on Aging and Long-Term Care, I said one thing on the floor more than anything else: seniors don’t get a do-over.

You can’t go back and save more money twenty years ago. You can’t take back the decision about when to retire, or whether to take the pension or the lump sum. Every one of those choices was made under the rules in place at the time. When you’re working, a bad year is a setback. When you’re retired, it’s permanent. There’s no raise next year and no job to go back to.

That’s why I’m voting Yes on Proposition 42.

California’s aging population is not a projection anymore. The silver tsunami is here. When I worked on the Master Plan for Aging, I had to think about seniors who have nothing and no help, and also about people who worked their entire lives, paid their taxes, and set aside what they could so they’d have something to live on. Both are of my concern. Both are vulnerable in the same specific way: they are living longer, on what they already have.

And I know how this state works. We go through boom-and-bust cycles. When the budget gets into a pickle, someone always goes looking for money, and seniors are an easy place to look.

I think about my great-aunt Annice. She was a day worker. When Social Security came along, they told people like her to sign up, that this was how you’d be taken care of when you got old. She did what they told her. And years later, when the government found itself short, there was talk of taxing her retirement, of messing with her Social Security. She was furious. Not about the dollars. About the fact that they had made her a promise and were looking for a way around it once it got expensive.

That fight is as old as this country. Annice knew it, and I’ve watched it my whole career.

Some people will say seniors should pay their fair share. Seniors have paid their share. They paid taxes on that money when they earned it. They paid into the system for decades, expecting it would be there for them. Now the cost of groceries, utilities, housing, and health care has gone up on a fixed income—and the answer can’t be to ask the people with the fewest options left to give the most.

Proposition 42 says the state cannot tax you simply for owning what you’ve saved, and cannot reach backward into decisions you already made. It doesn’t change a single tax Californians pay today. It doesn’t cut a dollar from the schools, health care, or programs in the budget right now. What it does is keep the state from changing the rules in the middle of the game.

That matters for people retired today, and it matters just as much for everyone still working and saving. They deserve to know the rules they’re planning around will still be the rules when they get there.

I’ve spent my career on this. Support the seniors who have nothing, yes, and don’t punish the ones who managed to save. Neither group gets a do-over.

Vote Yes on Proposition 42.

Cheryl Brown is immediate past chair of the California Commission on Aging. She previously served in the California Assembly. 

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Dodgers drop Shohei Ohtani to 5th in lineup for NLDS Game 3

• October 6, 2026

ATLANTA — It was a tough Sale that led to a tough decision.

The Dodgers dropped a slumping Shohei Ohtani in the lineup for Game 3 of their National League Division Series. Ohtani was fifth in the Dodgers’ batting order on Tuesday night. It is the first time with the Dodgers that he has not batted first or second in their lineup and the lowest he has hit in a lineup since 2020 with the Angels.

“This is really specific to Sale,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said, referring to the Atlanta Braves’ Game 3 starter, Chis Sale. “The guys that I think that they want to run out there tonight and Shohei’s history versus Chris.”

The Braves will be starting right-hander Tyler Mahle in Game 4, but Roberts would not say Ohtani will be back in the leadoff (as he has been against right-handed starters since returning from the injured list and platooning at leadoff with Mookie Betts)

“Not necessarily,” Roberts said. “Mahle is certainly a neutral, you could argue a reverse (splits versus right- and left-handed batters). So I don’t know that answer. Yes, he does throw with his right hand, but I haven’t made that decision quite yet.

“I don’t see him hitting in the 5 tomorrow, I know that, regardless.”

Ohtani returned from the IL to go 5 for 21 in the final five games of the regular season and managed just one single in each of the first two NLDS games. More troubling, he has not hit a home run since Aug. 18 (94 plate appearances ago) and has just one extra-base hit (a double) in his past 62 plate appearances.

But it has been hard to evaluate how much of Ohtani’s struggles recently are due to physical issues. He has chased far too many pitches out of the strike zone, seeming overeager to re-assert himself.

“I had a good conversation with him last night (about dropping him in the lineup), told him my thoughts,” Roberts said. “He completely understood and said – in all honesty, he said I was going to come to you in September and say, ‘Why don’t you hit me seventh?’”

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Trump highlights a big new defense project in Maryland, a blue state whose governor didn’t attend

• October 6, 2026

By JOSH BOAK, WILL WEISSERT and STEPHANIE SCARBROUGH

BALTIMORE (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday touted a $3.7 billion investment by the military technology company Anduril to build components for nuclear-powered submarines at a Baltimore-area shipyard.

It’s one of a series of events Trump is holding across the country to showcase investments in factories, as high gasoline prices from the Iran war and persistently elevated inflation have damaged the president’s approval ratings on the economy.

“The workers of Baltimore and the shipyard here at Sparrows Point have been a vital part of the American industrial strength for literally over a hundred years,” Trump said, adding that the work being done “is going to be a big component for our future military.”

The site where he spoke was Sparrows Point, Maryland, which formerly housed a steel mill for Bethlehem Steel that closed in 2012.

The president is trying to rally Republican voters with less than a month before the midterm elections on Nov. 3.

This event, though, was in the solidly blue state of Maryland — and Democratic Gov. Wes Moore didn’t attend.

Ammar Moussa, a spokesman for the governor, said Moore was blocked from speaking at the event. A White House official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss internal planning, said Moore had been invited to attend the event — as a guest. Moore, who is seeking reelection, is considered a potential presidential candidate in 2028.

Despite the dustup over the event, Moore joined Trump in praising the project.

Moore in a statement said the project could potentially create “the most jobs in Maryland in history.” The new facility is expected to create 3,100 direct jobs with several thousand more indirect jobs being supported.

“Governor Moore has always said he will work with anyone when it comes to delivering for Marylanders but bow to no one when it comes to standing up for them,” Moussa said.

Before the event, guests, who included several dozen service members, mingled with food and drink inside a hangar-like structure adorned with Anduril banners proclaiming “Who Dares Strike at Liberty,” “Command the Sea Command the World” and “The Shipyard is the Weapon.”

Behind the stage where Trump spoke, a backsplash touted “Rebuild the Arsenal.”

Several members of the the Baltimore Ravens, including Marlon Humphrey, a star cornerback, were among those invited. The president plans to attend Saturday’s big college football matchup between Alabama and Georgia, after attending Texas at Tennessee late last month.

“Whoa ho ho,” Trump proclaimed of the players. “All these guys are making a lot of money.”

The president also said he wasn’t necessarily personally cut out to go aboard submarines, offering, “Me, I’d rather be floating on seas.”

The $3.7 billion covers “the cost of standing up the facility, building the workforce, filling it with modern technology and other capabilities required to do the work that we will be tasked with,” Chris Brose, Anduril’s president and chief strategy officer, said on a conference call with reporters organized by the White House.

Administration officials on the call said he government would commit $2.9 billion to the project by purchasing what the factory in Baltimore County, Maryland, produces. The Trump administration is trying to revive America’s shipbuilding capabilities for national security and economic reasons.

Trump said the deal will allow U.S. taxpayers to take a 40% stake in the shipyard and will ensure that “the historic grounds of Sparrows Point will never fall silent again.”

Brose said Anduril would take advantage of “manufacturing revolutions” in the aerospace and other sectors, along with software, to change how factory production would occur.

The U.S. has 26 Virginia-class nuclear-powered submarines and expects to add two more to its fleet in the spring, according to an official on the call. That official spoke anonymously as a condition set by the White House.

Associated Press writer Collin Binkley contributed to this report.

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